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Indicator Framework: Agenda Setting and Strategy

The Indicator Framework includes a total of 34 indicators broken down into 6 categories (agenda setting/strategies, policy/plan formulation, implementation, feedback/evaluation, dissemination, GHG emissions). The Indicator Framework tries to represent climate-related actions undertaken at any given moment by a local government (LG) as either incremental, transitional or transformative. Zooming out to the level of the indicator categories allows the user to assess, along thematic lines, where (and how) things are changing in local government GHG emissions, policy, planning or operations. Indicator categories reflect local government mandates to undertake strategic plans, regulate and operate internally. The indicator criteria have been informed by key concepts embedded in social practice theories, multi-level perspective, and socio-ecological systems thinking.

Click on the Indicators column to read more about each one. Bolded titles are categories, while the numbered headings refer to indicators. Note that there are four tables in total, with the first three showing one category per table, and the last grouping together 3 categories.

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Local Government Climate Action Indicator Framework

Indicators

Incremental Actions

Transitional Actions

Transformative Actions

Agenda Setting and Strategy

1. Strategic Approach

Climate-related initiatives/programs are framed as either efforts to mitigate or adapt to climate change.

Climate-related initiatives/programs are seen to contribute to multiple LG departmental strategies.

Climate-related initiatives/programs are framed as vital parts of a more holistic sustainable community agenda/narrative/strategy.